The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Buckwheat grows well at Hawthorne.
Watermelons are plentiful in Ocala at 25c.
each
Pear trees at Fairbanks are very heavily
| fruited
Peaches are 15c. quart at Green Cove
Springs.
Fernandina is filing up her old marshes
with sand.
Ocala has just had visitation of June
apples, etc
A roller skating rink is the latest addition
to Daytona.
Shipments of tomatoes continue from
| Okahumkee
S. A. Long, of Grahamville, has four
| acres of fine rice
Watermelons are plentiful in the Indian
| River settlement.
John C. Luning has been appointed post
master at Leesburg.
Columbia County raises white blackberries
and black blueberries.
| John Dymock, near Leesburg, raised a
| cucumber Is inches long,
The average shipment of vegetables from
| Oxford daily is 100 crates.
| Lake Weir has the largest bearing lemon
| grove of which there is any record.
The little kids of Ocala are making eff
| forts toward organizing an athletic club.
The good people of Reddick will hold
| their annual picnic June so at Capt. S. F.
| Rou's.
| New Smyrna has declared quarantine
against Key West and all towns south Of
that place.
Tallahassee District Conference, Methodist
| Episcopal church, South, begins at Mic
cosuld on June 20.
The Gainesville Guards, when fully reor-
! ganized and i'll working order, will be one
of the finest equipped military companies in
| Florida.
The honest old crackers of Florida say
that if it rains on June 81 it will rain every
| day for 100 days. Watch and see if its a
| true prediction.
| A straight line can be drawn through
| seventy-five miles of Indian river without
| touching shore II is called the Straightest
| river in the world. .'-
The Volusia County Board of Health have
quarantined Smyrna Inlet and haveput two
men on duty, one on the south and one on
the north side at that place.
The canal connecting East Tohopekaliga
| and Big Tohopekaliga is being made 4 feet
deeper and 20 feet wider. A large number
of hands are employed in doing the work.
At the residence of Capt j. G. Boozer, the
| brides father, on Tuesday, June IA, by the
Rev. P. H. Crumpler. Miss Celeste Boozer to
William NJ. Harrell, Esq, all of cambridge.
Four prisoners from Orange county, all
| colored, We're sent up to the State peniten-
| tiary from the county Jail last Friday.
| Two are sentenced for five years, one for
| three years and the other for two years
The Ocala Building and Loan Association,
| at its last meeting, disposed of over 500 at
| a premium of II and as per cent 1t was
also resolved to give to any one desiring to
take stock in the association at its face
| value.
| Eustis Lake Region: ''The young ladies
| of Vassar College consumed 100000 buck
wheat cakes last year. Wonder what they
! put on EN-! We see no item of 'laSSeS in
the schedule" No, the lasses take the
| cakes! See.
Henry Griner, of Anthony, who sent
specimens OF yellow and curled pine, red
bay, ASH magnolia, oak, etc, to Vienna,
Austria, by request of parties there, is con
fident that he will induce foreign capitalists
to investigate and invest in or around An
| thony.
Col Forbes, of the Sub-Tropical EXPOSE
ton, who has been addressing the citizens of
many towns throughout the State the last
week or so, returned to Jacksonville Fri
day. He reports the feeling very much in
| favor of the exposition, and is confident it
will be a grand success.
A grand Masonic excursion and basket
picnic will be given under the auspices of
Marion Lodge No. 10, +. & A. NJ, of Ocala,
to Blue Springs on St Johns day, June "a
Invitations have been issued to all affiliatng
lodges, and everything will be done to make
the occasion an enjoyable one.
Mr.. Thomas Brown, of Savannah. who
was arrested in Jacksonville a week or two
ago for an alleged attempt to pass a coun-
terfeit bill, was released the next day, as it
xx~a lhf no had into
was an advertising dodge in the shape of
bank bill, and Mr. Brown declined to ascer-
tain ii 1T was good for anything.
President White, of the ST. Johns and
Halifax River Railway, was in Jacksonville
Friday. He reports that work is going for
ward rapidly on the new bridge at ROLES
town. During the day he had a long inter
view with President Mclaughlin. of the st.
Augustine and Palatka Railway, the pur-
port Of which is yet unexplained
Capt. Blocker, of Tallahassee, has grow
ing in his yard a tree called the umbrella
tree of Japan, entirely different from the
umbrella tree of China. II is only three
years old, and now has leaves on it that
measure 81 inches in length by rs wide. 1t
is umbrella shaped and makes shelter that
is impervious TO sunshine or rain.
b. F. Adams, of Eustis has on exhibition
in one of his show windows bunch of
Japan persimmons that is indeed a curiosity.
The high wind few days ago took the
branch from tree III Frank Savage's yard
In the thiclest part the branch is less than
an inch in diameter, but it held upon its
twigs $50 persimmons. "Some persim-
mons" that!
Passenger traffic. opens over the Florida
Railway and Navigation railroad fromWild-
wood To Plant City June 20. The line from
Wildwood will be known as the Tampa
division, distance sixty-one miles, and Il
shortens the distance from Jacksonville TO
Plant City thirty miles over all other routes.
The new stations ON the division are Owens
boro, Dade City and Plant City.
Justice Shrine, of Sanford, sent up 10 Or
lando Friday morning, 10 await trial by the
Circuit Court, Andrew Ashford tcoloredl.
for breaking aud entering the station house.